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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Holiday Stress And Self-Healing

Have you started yet? You know, have you started the process of telling yourself that this holiday season you can handle more than you really can? I used to be so good at doing that. I thought I was the holiday super woman so I’d be running around doing all kinds of activities, eating all kinds of foods that weren’t good for me, and staying up late getting ready for various festivities with family and friends. I spent so much time getting ready—including buying and wrapping “presents,” it was a wonder I ever actually enjoyed the season with my loved ones.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Your Life Path and Self-Healing Are Entwined

For many years I thought my real spiritual work would begin once I was fully healed. What I didn’t understand was that my self-healing was my spiritual path. It wasn’t that I needed to get better and then I would have the energy to devote to my spiritual awakening. It was the other way around. Discovering my unique spiritual gifts—and learning how to apply them in every area of my life including my healing and awakening—was the journey. In fact, much of my awakening has taken place as I have been focused on self-healing!

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Creativity Opens Doorways to Your Self-Healing Intuition

Creativity is a stimulant to intuition. Creative people often describe the source of their creativity as inspiration. Highly intuitive individuals will often describe their source of insight as inspiration. Stimulating your creativity is one way to develop your inspiration and intuitive abilities; therefore, receiving more messages about your healing from your inner well of wisdom.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Is It Harmful to Speak About Negative Thoughts? Does that give them more power?

The way you speak about your negative thoughts is where speaking about them can actually give those thoughts power. Consider entering into this imaginary scenario with me. See if you can imagine your negative thoughts as a person in the room with you. You can give them a personality, a name, a form of some kind—whatever it takes to make them seem like something other than you for a moment.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

What Can You Do to Speed Up Healing?

If you are really ill or in pain, you want to get out of it just as fast as you can. You might find yourself inclined to do just about anything to get quick relief. As you probably know, relief from discomfort or pain is not necessarily the same as healing. You can be experiencing temporary relief, but still need healing.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

How Healing Objectives Could Help You

I know this might sound really strange if you have never set a healing objective, but like all things we create, clarity of intention makes a difference in healing too. Of course, creating intentions that truly motivate you is where healing objectives can help you make and see progress. Before you grab your paper and pencil, I invite you to become very still for a moment and allow yourself to reflect on how you will feel in your body when you are well: —Perhaps you will feel flexible in your body or have more vitality.r

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Healing When Your Senses Are Failing You

One of my readers asked how she could regain her hearing. Since many of us loose acuity of one or more of our senses throughout our lives, her question could be significant for many of us to consider. Physically, how one regains hearing is as specific as how one lost it. There are dozens of physical causes for hearing loss and other sensory deprivations. Your healing approach is likely to be dependent upon the physical cause.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

What Can I Do to Experience More Energy Overall?

As I’m writing a response to this question today, I am feeling tired. I’m not entirely sure whether I’ve taxed my body with what I’m currently healing or the planetary alignment is tugging on my energy. Fortunately, I’m feeling emotionally stable, though many years ago, emotional upheaval was the greatest pull on my energy.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

What Can I Do to Get More Sleep at Night?

Insomnia challenges so many of us. I remember nights lying in bed thinking about everything I thought just had to be done, sacrificing my health and my rest to my busy mind. Resting is a natural state, but isn’t it interesting how many of us at some time in our lives have found it to be a state so difficult to experience? For those of us that live in cultures where achieving is revered, it can be difficult to accept that action and achieving are only half of the human equation for mastery as human beings.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Holidays, Family Dynamics and Self-Healing

During this holiday season, if you spend more time with your family, you may find your buttons getting pushed. Here is the thing about healing. Those buttons—those are the very places where you store pent up feelings and ignore unmet core needs that lead to or contribute to illnesses. This holiday could provide a significant opportunity to do some fundamental healing that will allow your mind and body to find greater healing. Families are where our deepest unmet needs rise to the surface.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Have You Ever Wondered If This Might Be Inhibiting Your Healing?

It took me a lot of years to figure this one out. I grew up in a family that practiced cynicism like a religion. Nothing was exempt from our familial cynical eye. Anything that wasn’t part of our family’s dogma was suspect and therefore, frequently ridiculed during the family meal or late night discussions.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Healing Focus for 2012

How should you focus your attention for healing this year? Each year has a unique energy of its own. In order to bring the most to your healing intentions, you probably want to align with the natural and cosmic energies of the year. This year is about alignment.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

What Can You Do About Depression When You Are Healing?

Depression underlies many physical conditions, either because it was part of the cause of the illness or because you are feeling the pressure of your physical limits. While my book, The Root of All Healing wasn’t intended to be a book about alleviating depression, as I began to answer this question, I realized how much of it really does speak to natural approaches to addressing depression. In a sense, it has to, because if you are healing the root cause of your illness, the root cause of your depression is part of or contributing to your physical and emotional challenges.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

You Just Thought You Were Healing...and then...

Do you ever feel like you are finally getting some relief from some symptoms when they start back up again? Have you ever found yourself following your treatment perfectly only to have the symptoms sneak in and out? One day you are feeling better than ever and the next day you are feeling your worst?

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

How Do I Heal My Stress?

This wonderful question came from several of our readers, and this one really struck home with me. I was once the queen of stress! Perhaps some of you feel that way, like you are or have been kings or queens of stress in your own life. When you have come to a pinnacle in which you are quite certain that you know stress intimately well, it is time for a retreat. I mean—stop the clock, no responsibilities, no one to take care of or answer to, no excuses, put the brakes on your life—retreat.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

What Works Well for You in Your Self-Healing?

Right now is the perfect time to consider what works well for you in your self-healing. As you reflect upon last year, perhaps you will want to take some time to think about what has brought you the greatest healing. If you do this, I suggest becoming a real observer of your reality. (Something I talk about in greater depth in the first chapter of my book, The Root of All Healing.)

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Use Your Emotions to Help You Heal

Emotions tell stories about what is really going on. You’ve just got to be willing to sit with the uncomfortable ones long enough and with enough self-honesty to discover what they are telling you about what you need for your healing. This is going to make a lot more sense if I share a couple of poignant stories from my life. Years ago, I was in loving relationship where my sexual energy started to fully awaken and blossom.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Moving Through Resistance to Healing

You want to heal so much. You are making positive changes in your life. You have decided to be completely committed to your health, but nothing is changing. You are up against some kind of resistance, but you don’t even know how to define it. You just know it is there. What’s happening? This is one of the most frustrating moments in healing. If you meet that resistance often enough, you might find yourself giving up healing entirely.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

From Bliss in Meditation to Anger in Life

Have you had the experience of leaving a luscious other-worldly experience only to come back to this reality feeling cranky? I’ve caught myself more than once thinking to myself, “That’s real spiritual, Misa! Open your heart wide in compassion during your meditation and then, in this world, get critical with someone when they are trying to do their best.” Oddly, these instances seem to occur in proximity to the end of my meditations and dreams.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Experiencing Healing Peace This Holiday Season

Do you ever feel as though you have entered rat-race season starting about the end of November? We can become so caught in up in what we think we should be doing for the holidays that we lose track of how we really want to be feeling. We send holiday cards that wish each other peace and we sing beautiful songs about peace—all the while feeling stressed and cranky. And as many of us now know, stress is related to hundreds of today's illnesses. So being stressed just might become the cause of an illness this holiday season or exacerbate an existing condition.

Primary topic: Healing

1,347 views

By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Health Challenges Aren't Meant to Limit Us

Have you seen the movie, The Snow Walker? I know I don’t usually recommend films, but this one that I watched for the first time the other night, is worth telling you about if you are seriously dedicated to your self-healing. Now, I’m not going to give away the plot, but I am going to tell you that it is not a film about physical healing. However, it gives you a lot to consider when it comes to understanding what overwhelming challenges do for your spiritual and emotional evolution.

Primary topic: Healing

1,346 views

By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

When Loved Ones Don't Like Your Approach to Healing

Have you experienced this? Someone that loves you doesn’t agree with how you want to go about approaching your healing. Or maybe you are on the other side of this experience. Maybe you are the one that is really uncomfortable with your loved one’s choices.

Primary topic: Healing

1,307 views

By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

Health and the Power of Right Now

Have you ever considered making a change you knew would probably positively and significantly improve your health, and then chose not to do it? I know I have. Those are moments that became regrets. Those are the illnesses I suffered longer than necessary because I was ignoring the discomfort, hoping it would go away because I was too busy to deal with it. Even though I know better, I actually did that with a headache today. My head hurt and I took something for it that usually helps immediately. Nothing happened.

Primary topic: Healing

1,300 views

By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

The Healing Freedom of Truth

A teacher once said to me, “Most people are lying to themselves most of the time.” “Yah, right,” I thought as I blew off the concept as nonsense. However, that kind of statement has a way of sticking with you, and I couldn’t get it out of my thoughts. “How often am I lying to myself?” I wondered.

Primary topic: Healing

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By Misa HopkinsRecently published1 topic

To the Brave Women of Hollywood: Thank you.

To the women of Hollywood - women like Alyssa Milano, Gabrielle Union, Ashley Judd, Lady Gaga, Queen Latifah, Kesha, Mo’Nique, Mira Sorvino, Teri Hatcher and many others: We didn’t realize how much we needed you to speak up and share your stories of sexual abuse, trauma and harassment. But now that you have, we see the ripple effects of healing that you’ve inspired. Thank you. You have ushered in a new paradigm for women, where we’re telling our stories too.

Primary topic: Healing

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